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I loved his commentaries. Clarke 1-0
He's retired, bust be 82ish. |
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84 in April.
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Porterfield,1-0
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Totally disastrous at the 2000 Olympics by which time dementia seemed to be kicking in. Unloved by his colleagues and was sidelined without fanfare or recognition by the BBC, yes he's in a home now.
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tHOUGHT HE WAS DEAD
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Sorry , wrong David....VINE.
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Tevez is God 20 Jan 14:53
Porterfield,1-0 grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr lol |
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His spitting image puppet was my favourite! Er, quite extraordinary!
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He must have been despised by the BBC management
Around the time that he left, there was a huge BBC media jamboree about another departing commentator. Murray Walker announced he would be retiring after the F1 season nearly a year away. Nothing for David Coleman, who did dozens and dozens of much more important sporting events than Walker |
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He was
John McCririck worked on Grandstand as a runner way back when. He claims Coleman was an utter bully (and for someone to bully Big Mac, he must have been a right tyrant) and was despised by anyone who worked on the programme. |
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My mate saw him in a pub with his first wife, the actress Hilda Baker
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It's still a bit petty really, in the scheme of things.
Totally ignored by the BBC since the day he walked out the door. |
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There's a clip of david having a go at a cameraman on youtube.
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Can't remember the athlete involved, might have been Juantorena, but as he sprinted away from the field Coleman said
"and he opens his legs and shows his class" |
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I sent a quote into Private Eye's 'Colemanballs' column, which got printed. He was reading out the latest scores as they came in and said, 'The score is Middlebrough 0 Middlesbrough 1, and Middlesbrough have now gone 11 matches without a win'.
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Some more pearls from DC
Her time about 4.13, which she's capable of. There is Brendan Foster, by himself, with twenty thousand people... He is even smaller in real life than he is on the track. ...he just can't believe what's not happening to him. There is only one winner in this race. ...and the winner is the winner. Bradford, who had gone up from 200 metres to 400, found it hard going and for the last 100 was always going backwards. The Test Match begins in ten minutes - that's our time, of course... Gary Bailey had to choose tonight to miss out on saving that. |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaL5sOClpBc
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Was Coleman was the commentator on the Italy vs Chile game in 1962.
The end of football as we know it. |
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I bought the bookings on the spread in that game
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I still think his cup final & Olympic commentaries from the 1970's were second to none.
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you can think what you like about commentaries etc but the man is a cnt. Backtimed interview with a racing personality in 1973 in order to show said rp's gambling prowess. Following week....tipping service. I know ...I worked it.
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Went on for at least five years too long.
His latter commentaries on football and athletics were just appaling. |
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Didn`t he go into the mustard business?
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His peak was the LA Olympics 1984
"Steve Ovett,those cold blue eyes......like *****of ice" 1980,Moscow 2Steve |
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on the 800m he always said 1st lane run in bends instead of first bend run in lanes.
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here comes wattle with the throttle
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I thought it was Ron Pickering who was responsible for the Juantereno quote.
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it was frank bough Big Mac worked with
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Chile v Italy 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOtL1m1o_ok |
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Juantorena was Coleman, though its not worth the repeated mentions it gets. Pickering commentated on field events
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I LIKED HIM SAYING THEY THINK ITS ALL OVER,WELL ITS NOT FOR THE STARTER,HES SHOT ONE OF THE RUNNERS
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THAT WAS AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES NOT THE DOGS
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Was it he who came out with the line about the female Romanian weightlifter? I'm not sure of the accuracy of the quote, but it always makes me chuckle, something like, "I saw her snatch this morning....... and it was magnificent"!!!
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I think DC's era preceded wimmin's weightlifting.
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Could have been Stuart Storey, he drops clangers too.
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when hemery won the gold in the 400m hurdles coleman said who cares whos third
just as a brit won a bronze medal never did find out his name :( |
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lol just watched the Battle of Santiago. I wish the BBC was still like that, telling the rest of the world it's sh1t! - "the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football, possibly in the history of the game."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjhC-1W9QTE&feature=PlayList&p=0A9343084C2B2BF2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=64
When you have finished taking the mickey , watch his fantastic commentary on one of the greatest races of all time. |